Health

Withdrawn from the Formulary

The research this country decided it could do without.

• ~$500MThe mRNA wind-down: 22 vaccine-development projects terminated — Bird-flu and pandemic platforms at Moderna, Pfizer and Emory among them. The department's phrase: a "coordinated wind-down." (Aug 2025)
• $766MModerna's pandemic bird-flu vaccine contract — Canceled the same week the company reported positive interim trial results. (May 2025)
• 2,291 grants, $2.45BNIH research grants terminated in 2025 — The peer-reviewed count. Hundreds were reinstated by one court and re-terminated when a higher one let the cuts resume. (2025)
• $11.4BCOVID-era grants to state and local health departments — Moved to claw back — "the COVID-19 pandemic is over." A federal judge blocked it, but only for the states that sued. (Mar 2025)
• 86% terminatedUSAID's global-health awards — 5,341 of roughly 6,200 awards. The Lancet's projection — and it is a projection — runs to millions of additional deaths by 2030. (Apr 2025)
• 15 hospitalsThe pediatric brain-tumor trial network — The consortium that has run early-phase childhood brain-cancer trials since 1999 says it "will cease to exist"; the NCI says the work moves to a broader network. Its trials closed to new enrollment either way. (2026)

Each withdrawal dated and priced from the agency’s own announcement or the reporting that counted it.